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A 46-year-old Volusia County crack dealer was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday on top of a 15-year sentence he received last year for a similar crime. John O. Riley sold $60 worth of the drug to an informant in Oak Hill in May 2012 and $50 worth in December 2012 at his apartment in Edgewater, prosecutors said. Riley, also known as "Chuck," will serve his sentences consecutively for a total of 23 years, a judge ruled. The former Deltona resident has a criminal record dating to 1987 that includes drug and gun convictions.

A former Orlando area banker was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 years in federal prison on charges of bank fraud tied to a bogus mortgage scheme. Braden Koegel, 35, of Apopka was arrested last October and charged in an alleged scheme that used fabricated documents and bogus "straw" buyers to defraud Bank of America Corp. out of more than $2 million, prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty in November. Koegel is the former vice president of residential lending for the now-defunct R-G Crown Bank of Casselberry.

Jessie Baskin, an admitted participant in the 2011 hazing death of a Florida A&M University drum major, trembled Friday as a judge gave him nearly a year in the Orange County Jail for the crime. The 22-year-old musician, who pleaded no contest to manslaughter charges for his role in Robert Champion's death in November, offered a tearful apology. The sentence made him the first of more than a dozen defendants to get jail time. "Nobody ever intended for this to happen," Baskin said to Champion's parents, who traveled from Georgia for the hearing.

A man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and blow up the Orlando federal courthouse was arraigned Friday on charges carrying up to 25 years in prison, prosecutors said. According to a federal indictment filed last month, Jason Lynn Gay, at the time an inmate in the Orange County Jail, wrote a letter to the Orlando courthouse last summer threatening to kill Obama. "We are going to rip the last breath out of his lungs," Gay wrote, according to authorities. The letter also threatened to blow up the courthouse and kill an FBI agent, the indictment states.

A 26-year-old man was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend. Scott Stuut broke into Margaret Gee's house near DeLand through an unlocked rear sliding-glass door on March 2, 2012, slit her throat, then shot her three times, prosecutors said. A couple who lived with Gee, 59, left their 19-month-old son with her while they went to a restaurant about 8 p.m., records show. When they came home about 10 p.m., they found Gee dead in bed and the sliding-glass door open.

A GPS-monitored defendant accused of shooting a man in the head with a high-powered rifle near an Apopka park on Easter last year was sentenced to more than four decades in prison on Friday. Chief Judge Belvin Perry suspended Orange County's privately-run GPS program after police said Wilfred Gregory shot Calvin Johnson near Alonzo Williams Park, then cut off his monitor and fled. The shooting came amid the county's home-confinement scandal, in which another defendant, Bessman Okafor, was accused of murdering a witness in his home invasion case, 19-year-old Alex Zaldivar.

TAVARES - A Lake County jury this week recommended that Eric Simmons, who was convicted of kidnapping, raping and killing a woman in 2001, remain on Florida's death row. The 12-member jury took less than three hours to decide 8-4 Thursday in favor of the death penalty for the 39-year-old Simmons. In the coming months, Circuit Judge Don Briggs will have a final say on that penalty but will give "great weight" to the jury's choice. Simmons was first sentenced to death for the killing of 48-year-old Debbie Tressler, who was last seen calling for help from a car driving on State Road 44 on Dec. 1, 2001.

A sex offender serving 30 years in prison for clubbing to death a homeless woman was sentenced Thursday to an additional 30 years for severely beating a prison guard. William Johnroe, 37, was convicted Wednesday of aggravated battery on a law-enforcement officer for the July 27, 2012 attack on Sgt. Anthony Cannavino at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach. He beat Cannavino in a recreation yard after the sergeant ordered Johnroe and other inmates to line up, Volusia County prosecutors said.

An Orange County man whose home turned into a bizarre crime scene when several young adults overdosed on bath salts - one fatally - was sentenced to prison for having an assortment of drugs in the house. Corey Dubois lived in the Vista Lago Boulevard home where 17-year-old Krystopher Sansone snorted bath salts off a $10 bill in February 2013. One of Dubois' roommates called 911 and begged for deputies to rescue her from the five crazed people destroying the house. When deputies arrived, they saw a young man in the front yard reaching for objects in the air that weren't there, grunting, convulsing, and seemed to be in a "zombie" state of mind.

A man convicted of attempted murder for shooting at Orlando Police Department drug-enforcement officers was sentenced to life in prison Monday at the Orange County Courthouse. Sadiki Allwood, 23, was convicted at trial last month in the Jan. 15, 2013 shooting at an apartment on the 5300 block of Cinderlane Parkway near North Orange Blossom Trail. The officers encountered Allwood while investigating a drug complaint, the Police Department said. He fired at them from the stoop leading to a second-floor apartment, then fled, police said.